December 2013

DEL NORTE COUNTY- A global child pornography investigation by the Department of Homeland Security has lead officials to Crescent City.

Jesus Portillo, 18 years old, and his 16-year-old brother were arrested for allegedly digitally exchanging child pornography. On Tuesday Homeland Security and the Del Norte County Sheriff’s Office served a search warrant at a...

EUREKA- In day two of Jason Warren’s preliminary hearing his wife of seven years testified and identified Warren as the voice captured on surveillance footage from victim Dorothy Ulrich’s Hoopa home on Sept. 27, 2012, the day she was killed.

Ulrich’s sister-in-law identified Ulrich’s voice as the woman heard in the video pleading for her life and yelling Warren’...

HOOPA- A Hoopa man is dead after jumping into the Trinity River after running from tribal police after allegedly stealing a military Humvee. Darrel Dwight Hostler, 34, was recovered underwater by authorities Wednesday morning.

"He was just trying to get away from law enforcement and [the river] was the only location to go from there," said Guyer.

WILLOW CREEK- Officials from the Six Rivers Nation Forest will use information from community members at a Post Fire meeting for next years fire season. About 20 community members came to the meeting to give officials input on the 2013 fire season.

Over 50,000 acres burned this year in 60 different fires. The largest were the Butler and Corral fires in the Six Rivers National Forest....

CRESCENT CITY- The Del Norte School employee facing child sex abuse charges was in court for an arraignment on Wednesday.

Gary Moore, the 52-year-old Crescent Elk Middle School Employee who was arrested on Monday for allegedly engaging in inappropriate touching and other acts of miscount with students at the school. In court, Moore was arraigned on six counts...